Program Notes

The title "冀" is the ancient Chinese character for “hope.” This music is inspired by the paintings of Long Cen. His style is unassuming and unpretentious, characterized by exquisite brush strokes and chromatics of a calm but evocative impression. His paintings reflect the efflux of human emotions with a profound artistic expression, which evinces humanism and the roots of human nature. The composer creates a trio piece for flute, erhu and piano. By exploring the change, recombination and reconciliation of the timbre among the instruments, the tones in the paintings are thus elucidated. The different musical phrasings for the instruments create an auditory distance among the voices, which reflects the abstract distance among the various emotions from corresponding images. The rhythmic, harmonic and melodic variations epitomize the aesthetics of liveliness and tranquility in the paintings. The contrast between reality and illusion, between existence and disappearance, leads to emotional gaps and hurdles, which eventually submit to the simplistic nature of humanity. In the linear development of the music, the sound evolves to the original essence through various aesthetic phases of virtuality/reality, wrapping/unfolding, gathering/scattering, distancing/closing, and brightening/darkening. The different textures of the sound transform, enhance, and diminish to show the hope for music's vitality and to express human's contemplation and inspiration of life. This piece consists of three sections: the birth of life, the course of life, and the sublimation of life. Using a style of minimalism, the music symbolizes love emerging from the mediocrity. As human beings proliferate from generation to generation, the hope escalates and fulfills our hearts.

冀

標題《冀》為希望的古文，此部作品靈感來自於岑龍的繪畫作品，他的畫風樸實無華， 筆觸深刻，色彩沈穩札實有力。其作品反映人類情感流入，寓有深遠的意境， 將人文關愛及樸實人性的依歸表露無遺。因此作曲者以長笛、二胡及鋼琴三重奏的編制來創作， 利用不同樂器間音色的變化、重組及調和來呈現畫中的色調， 運用不同樂器的演奏語法企圖在聲音的距離及抽象情感距離的各類意象相對應。 節奏及和聲旋律的層遞對比關係則象徵畫作中清新而靜謐的美感，現實與幻覺、 存在與消失之間的情感距離、跨越，最終回歸人類純樸的本質。在音樂的線性中， 將聲音回到原有的本質－虛／實，層次／剝落，聚／散，遠／近，明／暗的美學原則下， 藉由不同織度的聲音互相轉化，消長，盈虛，展現音樂的生機希望， 道出人類對生命本體的沈思與啟發。此曲分三段：生命的誕生，生命的歷程，生命的昇華。 利用極簡主義風格表現，象徵平凡有愛，人類一代又一代繁衍，生生不息，充滿希望。